Where did you fly today?

[RanchPilot]

Cool, Allen. I love to see people out exploring.

Question: what video software do you use, and how do you superimpose the arrow and writing on the screen to identify the strip? I use PowerDirector 10, and am lucky to get moving pictures on screen, much less do advanced stuff like that.

[Zzz]

Allen, i think you need to start producing a flying TV show.

Flying the Southwest with your host Allen Macbean.

[highroad]

Some raw footage off of the drift shuttling gear out of our camp.......
Edit: Played around on youtube with the basic editing......will see what happens as they update

[amacbean]

Thanks! I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the videos. It's kinda pricey and has many more capabilities than I use on these videos, but I have it at work for other reasons, so that's what I use. At home I have Premiere Elements, which I like, but it's not as cool as the full version. Putting graphics and text on and over the video is pretty easy in Premiere, you just type it in and stick in on a new layer over the top.

[gptc]

Great video Highroad. You ever make it over to Grants Pass let me know. Love to grab lunch.

Sean

[courierguy]

Hey RanchPilot: just looking at all that high country I got a nosebleed and slightly hypoxic

[chosstronaut]

Great videos, RanchPilot, highroad, Swindler and amacbean!

highroad, is that flying up the Illinois? Looks awesome.

[courierguy]

After wrapping up a truss setting crane job, and then overflying the jobsite to include the aerial pic with the bill, (and yes I have landed in the pasture adjacent to the jobsite, I had to "check it out for the crane") it was time for a little Snake River gravel bar action with another S-7 that happened to be in the area. [IMG]
The rocks wern't that big, but there was a lot of debris to contend with, a lot more then I noticed before landing. Not until walking our landing site did we fully realize what we had rolled over, so we cleaned it up a bit before launch, just doing our civic duty.!

[RanchPilot]

Very nice. Where is that other S-7 based? Trying to figure out if I recognize it or not.

[courierguy]

Some guy out of Blackfoot, he has spent time in Douglas Wyoming and seems to know his way around the S-7 pretty good! Since he has set up shop in Blackfoot, it has been real handy for me as he has LOTS of spare parts....kinda like Cub Crafters setting up near a Super Cub pilot, most convinent!

[RanchPilot]

If he's the same guy I'm thinking of, he's a magician with an S-7, both at the stick and under the hood!

Tell J hi for me the next time you see him.

[emflys]

I might know that guy.

[RanchPilot]

Emmett, you should touch base with him and see if he's coming to JC. I'm not sure whether he follows BCP or not.

[Eltee]

An early flight to Easton, MD to check out the bells and whistles on a new G530W/Aspen install

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Everyone should have a Spitfire....this guy has two.

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Blues in town this weekend

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This guy must be their bodyguard

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[Stol]

Nice Pics Tom, and great video ranchpilot... I was just down at Haas International installing new windsocks, dragging the runway and painting a bunch of tires white that line the runway. Ranchpilot,, it is just a few miles west of where you took the video in the Winds...... We need a fly in / BS get together there this summer.. I might get to the Rexburg airshow tomorrow and I have the Pocatello airport wanting me to display at their appreciation day... They even pitched in a hotel room and two tickets to the Hangar dance.....

[RanchPilot]

Ben, I have a buddy who is taking lessons at JAC right now. Been meaning to fly up and see him, but that means I'll have to remember how to use my radio again.

Are you on the airport? I'll stick my head in the door.

[RanchPilot]

Video of my flight into the Winds the other day. Doesn't really do them justice from FL 14.5, but there was a little wind so I didn't want to be much lower than that in the middle of the big rocks. Area at the end is Green River Lakes.

[chosstronaut]

RanchPilot, great video as always! The Winds are pretty damn cool, I'd say some of the deepest wilderness in the upper 48.

I took my girlfriend camping at Tokatee State down by the Umpqua for the weekend. We got picked up by a friend on Saturday to go out to breakfast and then go climbing nearby. It was great since hes a FS employee so he had a key to the runway gate so we didn't have to walk the extra mile to his truck

I'm amazed more people don't camp at Tokatee State, your miles from the highway, other than my friend we didn't see a single other car or person. Lots of turkey and elk though. The camping is prime, with a picnic table and a fire ring. I cleaned up the tie-downs a little bit and put some tires over them to make em a little more obvious. One has chains, the other two have older rope, might be wise to carry your own. You could have a couple of camps dispersed along the south side of the runway and you wouldn't know the others where there.

The strip is in pretty good shape with the first 1,500' of each end being nice grass, then the middle gets a little more rutted from the elk grazing. My friend said the FS does actually try and maintain the strip. We walked the strip and cleared what little debris was there. There was a nice chewed up animal carcass hiding in the grass on the west end strip, some of those sharp bones probably could have done some decent tire damage. Especially to a wanna-be like me in a 172 with stock tires.

If you go to Tokatee and notice all the wood stacks along the north side of the strip, that's a FS project where they are mimicking how they make charcoal for whiskey with the hopes the charcoal will actually add nutrients to the soil unlike their normal slash piles.

We camped at the east end near the airport register, which had only 12 entry's since 7/2010... Go check it out! McKenzie Bridge is fun for the slight challenge of landing there, but the camping at Tokatee is a lot nicer. BCP get-together some day?

If anyone has noticed the sweet 2000' paved strip at Illahee Flats along the Umpqua, I asked about it at the Dry Creek Store since its not charted or listed on airnav.com and found out its for sale for a cool $4,000,000, just dropped down from $5,000,000... Time to start saving!

Here is a video I made when I took my friend for a short flight to go look at some rock climbing areas with a quick landing in Prospect on Saturday morning.

Cheers!







Forgot to mention we did a little target practice


Breakfast @ Steamboat Inn




Went climbing here Saturday afternoon. McKinley Rock, lots of cool 5.10ish multi-pitch routes with a nice mile long hike in.

[hotrod150]

Nice shot-up airport sign. (assholes!)

[Rob]

Prince George - Mackenzie - Watson lake

Not a very long day... But the first time my sweetheart joined me thru the Trench... Perfect by my standards!


Soggy day in the trench

Getting better

Much better

All better

Sweet!


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Scoop Lake, I am bummed I didn't stop... Free fishing through out BC today for fathers day

Another Scoop shot, had I known the Wx would have blew my time to clear customs today
I woulda overnighted here. As it is the Gazeebo at Watson will serve well.





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